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Really hoping someone can advise on this.

My husband has just scraped and dented the side of our 20 year old compass omega.

It is a long score with the skin cut through at places, exposing polystyrene, and is dented along the scoring.

Could anyone advise how much roughly this would cost to have repaired, and whether or not it is worth it?

TIA

Thank you very much - this is really helpful

Should I treat just the broken sections, or the entire dent?

Quote: Originally posted by jeff juke on 27/4/2011

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Fill in the hole/tear with glass fibre then put the filler on it, up to the level surounding.

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Thanks!

Is the P40 the glass fibre stuff?

Is the filler/hardener a different product?

Sorry to be dense - not too clued up on this

Quote: Originally posted by jeff juke on 27/4/2011

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Go down to a car accessory shop and just ask for glass fibre in a tin it comes with a hardner.P40 is the filler ,you will get that there to,just tell them what your problem is and im sure some one will put you right.

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Quote: Originally posted by LegsDownKettleOn on 27/4/2011

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Don't use Halfrauds, find a proper factor and get it for half the price. It takes about half an hour to dry if you use the correct ammount of hardner. It should be ok to rub down after that time. I word of advise though, don't let any hardner get into the tin. Between mixes, let it go hard on the spreader and break the hard filler off afterwards. Don't be tempted to put the spreader back into the tin with any mixed filler on or return mixed filler to the tin or you will get lumps in it.

Thanks v much for this - I would probably have made all these mistakes, so really appreciate it!

Should I be filling in all of the dent?  i.e. the whole way along?  Or just the bits where the panel is actually cracked?

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